The dirty truth

On the occasion of the World Toilet Day, we present some stark truths about sanitation challenges in India, including the progress report of the …

Does government really want sustainable sanitation for rural areas?

Repeated discussions over expensive and not-so-feasible technologies have led to disappointment within experts and industry

Poor sanitation cost India 5.2% of its GDP

Lack of access to sanitation wiped off US $106.7 billion from India's GDP in 2015. It is almost half of the total global losses

Usage of toilets in India is over 95 per cent, reveals new NSSO survey

This finding is, however, from a two-month rapid survey, considered too short by experts

मोदी सरकार ने बनाई गांवों को संपूर्ण स्वच्छ बनाने के लिए 10 साल की रणनीति

सरकार का कहना है कि स्वच्छ भारत मिशन का लक्ष्य लगभग हासिल हो चुका है, अब ग्रामीण क्षेत्र को संपूर्ण स्वच्छता का लक्ष्य रखा ...

Ethiopia curbed open defecation at fastest rate; what can India learn?

Unlike India, Ethiopia has recognised sanitation as a health problem and focused on behavioural change over toilet construction

In hurry to build 40 toilets a minute, did govt forget about safe sanitation?

CAG reports of Gujarat and Uttarakhand, which are ODF status holders, say many toilets only exist on paper and several are defunct

Churu says yes to hygiene

The district is all set to become the first in Rajasthan to completely stop open defecation. Will others follow?

बदल चुकी है खुले में शौच करने की आदत, आगे भी रहेगी जारी: सचिव

स्वच्छ भारत मिशन के तहत भारत के खुले में शौच मुक्त (ओडीएफ) होने की स्थिति को आगे कैसे बरकरार रखा जाएगा, इस बारे में ...

'Poor sanitation not only has a health dimension but also an economic and environmental one'

Down To Earth spoke to Kebede Worku, Ethiopia's State Minister for Health, on the turnaround that his country has brought about in the field of …

Will India get freedom from open defecation?

Skyrocketing numbers on government websites project a doubtful picture of what has been achieved in one year. Read our Independence Day special

Gandhian Sanitation: How Kolhapur combined toilet design, biogas to treat faecal sludge

Almost 75 per cent of the district depends on properly designed septic tanks; around 25 per cent of it uses biogas-linked toilets at …

Government still chasing toilets, but that won’t solve sanitation issues: experts

The government is still correlating the number of toilets built with open defecation-free status of villages

Centre gears up to launch revamped sanitation mission

Corporate houses will have a major role in Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan which aims at achieving total sanitation by 2019

Gandhian Sanitation: Political will, proactive sarpanch changed the sanitation scene in Mariyapuram

The village sarpanch formed self-help and youth groups to motivate the village residents; the Panchayat constructed 192 individual and nine …

Nadia in West Bengal goes Churu way, achieves open defecation-free tag

Nadia’s campaign, termed “Sabar Souchagar” (toilets for all) was an entirely community-driven idea

Global goal, local fight

The success of Swachh Bharat Mission will decide if the world will achieve its goal of being open defecation-free

Are we really getting a clean Ganga by 2019?

We have already lost 30 years after the launch of the first Ganga cleaning programme. It is time to take strong and quick actions on the ground.

Swachh Bharat Mission: ‘Inducing behavioural change was a task’

Parameswaran Iyer, secretary, Department of Drinking water and Sanitation, spoke to Down To Earth on how intensive information-education-…

2 अक्टूबर को पूरा हो जाएगा स्वच्छ भारत मिशन का लक्ष्य, लेकिन...

अब नहीं होना होगा शर्मसार, खुले में शौच से मिली मुक्ति-1 : हर घर में शौचालय बन चुका है लेकिन सिर्फ 47 फीसदी बस्तियों ...

After India becomes ODF, Nigeria faces a mounting challenge

The African nation is set to replace India with the largest number of open defecators

बन गए 5 साल में 10 करोड़ शौचालय, लेकिन...

अब नहीं होना होगा शर्मसार, खुले में शौच से मिली मुक्ति-2: सवाल यह है कि क्या शौचालयों का निर्माण करते वक्त ऐसी तकनीक अपनाई ...

Union Budget 2018: Merely increasing funds for Clean Ganga will not ensure results

A CAG report had said underutilised funds and an absence of a long-term plan affecting rejuvenation of Ganga

Is the world ready to meet the SDG target on sanitation?

A closer look at the report by UNICEF and WHO tells you that this certainly not the case

बजट और हर घर जल मिशन, कितना दूर कितना पास

शहरों के 2.86 करोड़ घरों तक सुरक्षित पानी पहुंचाने के लिए इस बार के बजट में शहरी जल जीवन मिशन लांच किया गया है